National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi

National Film Awards

The National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal.
The National Film Awards, established in 1954, are the most prominent film awards in India that merit the best of the Indian cinema. The ceremony also presents awards for films in various regional languages.
Awards for films in seven regional language started from 2nd National Film Awards which were presented on 21 December 1955. Three awards of "President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film", "Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film" and "Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film" were instituted. The later two certificate awards were discontinued from 15th National Film Awards.
Directed by Sohrab Modi, the 1954 film Mirza Ghalib was honoured with the first president's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Hindi. The film was a bio-pic on the life of legendary Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.

Date Established : 1954

Check all the winners of National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi presented under National Film Awards since 1954 .